The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-12-16

Leaguers. calling itself the 1.-The Sec
Ond Kansas Invincible Regulators.
The object evidently is to intimidat'
land owners and Others who oppose tn
League, ~ they have written threat
eningletters and have been seen parad
ing the country with blackened O
masked faces and bearing arms. The
claim, we are told, to have already
cowed the sheriff. asserting that b.
will not serve any more writs agains
Leaguers. II our informant were no
entirely reliable 1t would be hard t,
believe that in this age and in Kansas
there could be found men 80 foolish
as to engage in this absurdly silly an(
ridiculous business. Do these reg
ulators" imagine for one little momen
that they are going to scare anybody
with their big name and their masked
parades and their threatening letters
And If, not content with soaring, they
should be wild enough to do any per
son bodily harm, how long do they
suppose they would last? Just abou,
az long as snow ball in sheOl! Kan
sas is not South Carolina, neither il /,
Missouri, and the idiots who attempt
to practice here the methods of the Ku
Klux and the Bald Knobbers will very
soon find it out.
AS we have already had mournful
occasion to remark, luck seems to be
dead against us in this natural gas bus.
mess. The first man we hired to put
down well No. I, spent five or six
weeks going q hundred feet, and final.
ly threw up the job leaving broken
drill fast in the bottom of the hole. We
hired another man to fish the drill out
then sent 1t and the rest of the tools to
Fl. Scott to be put in condition, had
our engine and boiler overhauled, and
made contract with q new 'expert.'
He was to have gone to work Monday,
but when that day came he flunked
So we are once more adrift. Never
mind. That hole will be bored yet II
1t takes all next summer. When lola
starts out to do anything, she does it.
After considerable kicking oul
Geneva and Neosho Falls friends have
succeeded in getting better railroad
facilities from the Colony & South
western railroad. On Dec. LIST a new
time card went into force on that road,
with two trains day each way. The
first one leaves here at 8 q. m. and
returns at 1:2O p. m. leaving again al
2:25 p. m. and returningat 1910 p. m.
It is rather hard on the train men,
but good for..the trav cling public. The
station at Geneva:hasIbeen re-establish.
ed and q Mr.. Tozer, from Baldwin
City, installed as agent. Colony Free
Press.
Complaint still comes to US that the
REGISTER fails to reach Bayard. This
is yexatious beyond expression. The
package is marked each week with q
plainly printed label, "Bayard, Allen
County, Kansas" and it's failure to
reach its destination is simply due to
the:criminal carelessness or stupidityof
the agents handling the mails between
this place and that. 1t is an outrage
that the mails cannot be trusted to
carry a paper safely to postoffice
within the county in which it is pub
lished.
There has been q good deal of COM
plant lately about delay in freight
consigned to the Southern Kansas.
One of our merchants tells us that q
box of goods which came from Chica-
60 to Kansas City in 81 hours was 100
hours getting from Kansas City here,
although it was promptly transferred.
The road will not make anything by
permitting such carelessness on the
part of its employers.
The Wichita railroad bridge gang tell
us that the Compa ny is talking of build
ing an entirely new bridge across the
Neosho at this point. If this Is done
the new bridge will be some distance
above the old one in order that the
track may be Strengthened and the
curve west of the river gotten rid of
In any event the work will occupy most
of the winter with the force now en-
gagged in it.
Our ice men are of the opinion that
this "Italian climate" business is being
overdone this winter, and
are getting uneasy about their ice har-
vest. They needn It worry. We are
getting the hang, somewhat, Of the Oc-
cult forces that govern the little mat
ter of weather, and our guess is that
the next three weeks will give them
all the ice they want.
At the meeting last Friday night
the following officers of lola Lodge
No. 90, A. o. U. W.. were elected for
the ensuing year. J. s. Turner, NJ.
w.; e. J. Thayer, F.; A. II. Camp
bell. o.; w. P. Northrup. F.; z. H.
DeClute, Receiver; G. e. Merwin, Re
corder; II. E. Thomas, Guide; J. B.
Nebergall, I. W.; o. J. Smith, o. w.
Treasurer Hayward and his assis-
tants are grinding out tax receipts
these days at the rate of a hun.
dred to a hundred and fifty q day. In
fact when we stepped into his Office
the other day, people were
over each other to give him
their money. Blessed are they that
haye the money to give!
The Garrett Republican, Pldindeal-
r. reports that Capt. l.. D. Dobbs is in
Jail in that city in default of cash to
pay q $50 fine assessed against him for
an assault upon little girl in West
phalia, where the Captain was about
70 produce "The Virginia Veteran" a
great "War Drama"
Geo. W. Martin, Of the junction City Union,
s o republican but not slave. Read his article
IN the land question on our last page.-Couranf.
Are we to infer, then, that all repub-
leans who do not agree with Geo. w.
Martin on the land question are slaves q?
II that is SO, some Of US wonld be glad,
IS q matter of curiosity, to be intro
luced to our master.
Miss Chamberlain tells US that
School district No. - has taken ad.
of the law noted on our last
page in voting q half mill tax to es-
tablish q school library. We hope the
may be followed by every
district in the cou nty.
From the quantity of holiday goods
our merchants display, and the beauty